{"id":918,"date":"2020-07-19T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2020-07-19T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:30:21","slug":"secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/19\/secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.<\/strong>\u201d
Matthew 13:35 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever been told a secret? Did you want to keep it a\nsecret or tell someone else? Secrets are hard to keep, yet the most important\n\u201csecret\u201d ever is not shared nearly enough. God had secrets, and He told many of\nthem to His people. We can know those secrets today if we will just read His\nWord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prophets of God revealed secrets that had been \u201ckept\nsecret from the foundation of the world.\u201d \u201cThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I\nwill open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret\nfrom the foundation of the world<\/strong>\u201d (Matthew 13:35). It is important to know about the prophets from\nthe Old Testament, and become familiar with what they had to say. The Old\nTestament prophets were important then, and they are still important today. If\nyou have ever read any of the books of the prophets from the Old Testament,\nthey are full of strange events and tellings that, to the common person, make\nno sense. They seem like mysteries or secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Bible is full of mysteries, God wants us to\nunderstand the mysteries, or secrets, of the Old Testament. He wants us to\nrealize that it all centered on the coming of Jesus, God\u2019s Son. \u201c25. Now to\nhim that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching\nof Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept\nsecret since the world began, 26. But now is made manifest, and by the\nscriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting\nGod, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith\u201d<\/strong> (Romans\n16:25-26). Once we have Jesus in our heart and read God\u2019s Word daily, we can\nunderstand those mysteries. We do not need prophets today because we have the\nprophets\u2019 words written in the Bible. Our job is to know God\u2019s Word so we can\nshare this \u201csecret\u201d that has been revealed to the world. The books of the Old\nTestament are very important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus told of a Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31. The Rich\nMan died without trusting in Jesus. Lazarus, a very poor man on earth, died\ntrusting in Jesus. When the Rich Man was in hell, being in torments, he could\nsee Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham. The Rich Man cried out for some water to\ncool his tongue. However, he was told that there was a great gulf fixed between\nthe two that could not be crossed. The Rich Man then asked for someone to be\nsent back to warn his five brothers, lest they too end up in hell. Read\nAbraham\u2019s response to him: \u201c30. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one\nwent unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31. And he said unto him,\nIf they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though\none rose from the dead<\/strong>\u201d (Luke 16:30-31). Everything they needed to\nhear to be warned about that place had been recorded in the words of Moses and\nthe Prophets. Remember, the mystery of the Gospel message of Jesus Christ was\nrevealed in the Old Testament \u201cby the scriptures of the prophets<\/strong>\u201d and it\nwas \u201cmade known to all nations<\/strong>\u201d according to Romans 16:25-26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as Jesus told of the Rich Man and Lazarus, the Law and the Prophets had the words that could have saved the Rich Man\u2019s soul for eternity if he had only believed them. It is very important to understand that without Jesus in our hearts, it is never enough. Many of the prophet\u2019s words were warnings to the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there any words of warning we need to share with our friends or family? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also published at Lighthouse Gospel Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been told a secret? Did you want to keep it a secret or tell someone else? Secrets are hard to keep, yet the most important \u201csecret\u201d ever is not shared nearly enough. God had secrets, and He told many of them to His people. We can know those secrets today if we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,390],"tags":[85,80,491,56,73,488,183,490,8,489],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpt-from-the-biblical-path-of-life","category-lighthouse-publishing-blog","tag-bible","tag-jesus","tag-lazarus","tag-mysteries","tag-old-testament","tag-parables","tag-prophet","tag-rich-man","tag-saved","tag-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}